Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet chilled beverage made of wine or other alcoholic liquor and grated nutmeg.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wine, more especially red wine diluted with water, sweetened, and flavored with nutmeg, used as a cold drink. Varieties of it are named from the wine employed: as, port-wine sangaree.
- To mix with water and sweeten; make sangaree of: as, to
sangaree port-wine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mixed drink common in theWest Indies , similar tosangria and usually featuringwine orfortified wine andspices .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But, when we became better acquainted — which was while Charker and I were drinking sugar-cane sangaree, which she made in a most excellent manner — I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott.
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But, when we became better acquainted — which was while Charker and I were drinking sugar-cane sangaree, which she made in a most excellent manner — I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott.
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“Excellent Sir,” said I, “I have;” and that very evening, as we sat over our cups of tertullia (sangaree),
Burlesques 2006
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I emptied the last of the sangaree into the two pint tumblers out of which we were drinking, and holding mine up, said,
Burlesques 2006
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Chocolate, and drink his Bowl of Claret sangaree, as well as any Man.
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To please all was somewhat difficult, and occasionally some of them were scarcely so polite as they should have been to a perplexed hostess, who could scarcely be expected to remember that Lieutenant A. had bespoken his sangaree an instant before Captain B. and his friends had ordered their claret cup.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
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One afternoon, taking a glass of sangaree at the tavern, I was accosted by one of our late mids who had come on shore with some others to what he called wet his commission.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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It contained delicious sangaree, and I bowed to it without being entreated to do so a second time.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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Administrador woke us all up, and gleefully presented us with an enormous bowl of sangaree, made of the remains of the Bordeaux and the brandy and the pisco, and plenty of ice, -- ice this time, -- and sugar, and limes, and slices of pineapple, Madam, -- the which he had concocted during our slumber.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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In anticipation of the hot weather, I had laid in a large stock of raspberry vinegar, which, properly managed, helps to make a pleasant drink; and there was a great demand for sangaree, claret, and cider cups, the cups being battered pewter pots.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
qms commented on the word sangaree
In isles of the mangrove and manatee
Swamp fevers can bring on insanity.
To shelter your senses
The best of defenses
Is glass after glass of sweet sanagree.
November 21, 2018